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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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When California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) was created on the site of the decommissioned Fort Ord in 1995, the university had an unusual opportunity to experiment with new approaches to undergraduate education. Without entrenched campus structures or a long institution history, education planners were able to design the school's curriculum around specific skills and areas of knowledge that we believed all graduates would need in the...
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Sheila Och intends to explore a dual vantage point in her essay on the theme of engagement and global citizenship. At one time a student at University of Massachusetts Lowell actively involved in service learning, Och is now the director of community health promotion for a health center (Lowell Community Health Center) in that same community. Diverse patients from throughout the world (Africa, Asia, Central and South America) who now live in...
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The enormity of natural disasters stimulates our desire to help, so in the face of tsunamis, landslides and hurricanes, we are inspired to respond. If we lack money to donate, we raise it; we find a way to help. Why, then, are so many stymied by the challenge of international public service work? Global literacy is the new computer literacy, and as with computers, hands-on experience is necessary for understanding global citizenship. The world...
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Energy and water shortages, global warming, and terrorism are but a few examples of the challenges we face as a world community. Moreover, the most economically significant entities on our planet are increasingly made up of corporations, not nations. The world, then, is becoming more interconnected, and also vastly more complex. In such circumstances, civic engagement becomes critical for the development of our students and future global...
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The principal findings of this report are based on 40 indicators of civic health, organized into nine categories, measuring levels of political activity, civic knowledge, volunteering, trust, philanthropy, and more. The survey information is nationally representative of the population as a whole and is complete through 2004 (with information from 2005, where available, included).
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A growing phenomenon is the changing needs of the workplace, with employers throughout the country calling for employees to be better prepared. The author of this booklet recognizes that the dropout situation impacts our economic challenges and provides examples of successful approaches to meeting the educational needs of at-risk students so they can become part of the high-performance workforce.
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Formal collaborations between community groups and academic institutions to promote economic development have increased substantially over the past 10 years. The bulk of research on community-campus partnerships has focused on the experiences of institutions of higher learning and the foundations that have funded the collaborations, leaving a gap in our understanding of community experiences. This report draws on a variety of sources, including...
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Growing to Greatness is the first comprehensive national study of the state of service-learning in kindergarten through 12th grade. It documents the unfolding story of service-learning, providing information to improve implementation, inform public policy, and give a clear picture of the many ways young people contribute to society. This second year report features a host of articles by service-learning experts, along with profiles of...
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This study presents the work of the University of Washington and Heritage University to jointly develop university-community partnerships in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. This work shows how research universities can partner with various communities in rural areas for the benefit of all parties: faculty, students, citizens and organizations. A section each focuses on economic development, information technology and neighborhood...
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This segment of EDUCATION NEWS provides parents information on service-learning and shares resources to help them help their children to become engaged citizens. Researchers, educators and community partners address questions such as: What do meaningful, comprehensive service-learning programs look like? What is the latest research on service-learning programs and how can citizenship be effectively taught in schools? How can service-learning be...
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This study examines the efforts of 16 local civil society organizations to support and empower the youth of the Balkan state as agents of social change. The programs profiled are located in nine different countries and territories in the region: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. Programs examined range from life skills development to service-learning programs designed to get youth...
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The fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series expands the discussion of service-learning research and practice.
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The following report will highlight the state of youth volunteering and consider the relationship between youth volunteer behavior and three primary environments where youth form their social networks: family, religious organizations, and school. These social institutions play an essential role in connecting youth to volunteer opportunities and encouraging them to become engaged in service. Fostering environments that encourage volunteer...
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In 2004 the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) supported a study to identify factors that motivate faculty to include service learning in their courses. Exploring the motivational factors of faculty enhances the understanding of the academic profession by clarifying the reasons why faculty change their teaching to include service learning in their courses. This study provides data and statistics regarding the motivational...
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It has long been established that the issue of truancy cannot be solved at the school level alone. The notion of "requiring the whole village" is particularly applicable to effective strategies that help keep students in school. This truancy prevention publication provides a general background discussion on the issue of truancy but mainly centers on the nuts and bolts of developing and implementing an effective community-wide collaborative to...
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This issue paper describes 10 high schools in nine school districts across the country where students are given many opportunities to develop citizenship skills. The schools differ in the kinds of civic knowledge, skills and dispositions fostered by their programs. The paper concludes with a look at promising citizenship education strategies and a summary of policy implications for states, local governments, districts and schools.
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This report examines the "line of sight" between state policy and school practice of citizenship education through the efforts of 14 school districts. The report argues that district practice could improve by explicit articulation of the connection between the civic knowledge, skills and dispositions acquired in school on the one hand, and the obligations of citizenship on the other.
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Growing to Greatness is the first comprehensive national study of the state of service-learning in kindergarten through 12th grade. It documents the unfolding story of service-learning, providing information to improve implementation, inform public policy, and give a clear picture of the many ways young people contribute to society. This first report from the project provides 18 state synopses of service-learning history, profiles of national...
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This anthology provides an overview and practical guide to establishing authentic learning partnerships through service learning, and to promoting civic engagement among the individual and institutional members of the various disciplinary foreign language organizations in the United States. The editors contend that teaching and learning Spanish and Portuguese entails more than language development and teaching the civilizations, cultures, and...
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Entering adolescence presents a whole array of issues that counselors can confront on behalf of all students who could easily become at risk. This monograph focuses on five major areas where schools have witnessed an increase in occurrence with middle school youth: school violence, bullying, depression, substance abuse, and truancy. [author]
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This is the fourth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series edited by Shelley Billig and Marshall Welch. New research in several areas of service-learning are covered including the foundations, impact, institutionalization, and the future of service-learning.
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This eight-page brief introduces AACC's fourth national grant project and describes its grantee college programs. The goals of Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service and administered by the American Association of Community Colleges, are to build on established foundations to integrate service learning into the institutional climate of community colleges...
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Powerful and practical suggestions are provided for how America's schools and communities can take advantage of all of the available people power and time to elevate our children's and communities' learning assets.
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This case study documents a number of partnerships undertaken by the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington, some within the bounds of the university, and many of them extending beyond the UW campus.
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According to the authors, there are a variety of teaching strategies or interventions available for helping students develop a more positive cultural perspective of their school, to which they refer as "as sense of place". To create such places of belonging where students fit in, the authors promote an ecological systems approach. Attention is devoted to the seven information sources comprising this system and an understanding of how...
